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My first impression is that your card doesn't support master mode. Which driver are you using? If its te RT2860sta from staging, then this doesn't surprise me, and I advise you to change to the rt2x00 drivers (rt2800usb or rt2800pci, depending on the type of your card)

I have this precise card in my laptop, and it works pretty good with the rt2x00 drivers (kernel 2.6.39). The precise module you need to load is called rt2800pci. Check your distro's (what is your distro btw?) module blacklist (usually /etc/modprobe.d/[filename].conf). if you find a line

Sorry, I hadn't realized Debian Squeeze had such an old kernel... it uses the 2.6.32 kernel (if I found correctly). To check that, you can run "uname -r".

the easiest way it to install compat-wireless. Unfortunately, it isn't a package. You'll need to install the build-essentials and linux-headers packages. Then download the compat-wireless sources, and follow the instructions (download link on the same page). The page I linked is for 'stable' sources, I suggest you download what will be included with the 3.0 kernel.